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February 13, 2018

Student Profile: Tianyi Sun

UTIG Ph.D. student Tianyi Sun was recently selected for one of three Outstanding Oral awards for the 2018 American Meteorological Society meeting in Austin. She presented on “Role of Stochastic Atmospheric Forcing in Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and ENSO Modulation.” The presentation can be viewed on the AMS website. We caught up with Tianyi to learn more… Continue Reading Student Profile: Tianyi Sun

Filed Under: Climate Stories, climate-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, homepage-slider, Meet the UTIG Student, News Tagged With: Climate, El Nino, ENSO, PhD students, research, student profile

November 16, 2017

New Research Could Predict La Niña Drought Years in Advance

Two new studies from The University of Texas at Austin have significantly improved scientists’ ability to predict the strength and duration of droughts caused by La Niña – a recurrent cooling pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Their findings, which predict that the current La Niña is likely to stretch into a second year, could… Continue Reading New Research Could Predict La Niña Drought Years in Advance

Filed Under: Climate Stories, climate-slideshow, homepage-news, homepage-slider, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Climate, drought, El Nino, ENSO, la nina

August 22, 2017

UTIG Team Uses New Data to Identify New Antarctic Ice Core Site

A new paper published in The Cryosphere from UTIG and international researchers is helping identify a new location for ice core drilling in East Antarctica, all part of ICECAP/IDEA (International Collaborative Exploration of the Cryosphere through Airborne Profiling/Ice Divides of East Antarctica), an international collaboration with Australian, French, British, and Chinese colleagues to understand the region. Ice sheet… Continue Reading UTIG Team Uses New Data to Identify New Antarctic Ice Core Site

Filed Under: homepage-news, homepage-slider, News, planetary-slideshow Tagged With: Antarctica, Climate, research

April 11, 2016

Campeche Bank Survey Uncovers Solution Pans in the Gulf of Mexico

The discovery of unique rock formations off the coast of the Yucután Peninsula reveals answers about past climates and the future impact of hurricanes Continue Reading Campeche Bank Survey Uncovers Solution Pans in the Gulf of Mexico

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chicxulub, Climate, Geomorphology, Gulf of Mexico, UNAM

February 4, 2016

Scientists map movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 years

  Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time, revealing that ice in the interior is moving more slowly toward the edges than it has, on average, during the past 9,000 years. The findings, which researchers said don’t change the fact that the ice sheet is… Continue Reading Scientists map movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 years

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Climate, glaciers, Greenland, ice sheets, research, Sea Level Rise

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